Tukiko

Taiyo is the most loyal of Tukiko's employees. Taiyo once fell in love with a man that her family hated. Since she was deeply in love, she prefered abandonning her family to him, however it happened that this man was in fact a criminal. He was beating up the poor girl nearly everyday, and one day that he nearly beaten her to death, she managed to run away. He ran after him, but she went into the mountain, hiding into Tukiko's onsen. Deciding to help, Tukiko protected the girl and litterally destroyed the boy's mind before devouring him for good. Since then the younger female decided to stay with Tukiko, and worked for her. She do pretty much everything in the onsen, taking care of customers, cleaning, repairing... just like Tukiko. And she hates when someone doesn't show her boss the respect she deserve.

Fuyu and Yuki were abandonned by their parents when they were young. Fuyu being the older girl managed to find work, but she was barely earning enough money to provide food for the two. They were very poor and one day Yuki fell sick. Fuyu begged her boss to earn more money to heal her sister, but they refused. Unable to stand it, Fuyu left with her younger sister, trying desperately to find a way to cure her. They ended up in Tukiko's onsen since Fuyu heared that it could heal the body and purify it somehow. Seeing their problem, Tukiko allowed the two to stay for free at first, but they quickly showed their desire to work for her in exchange for her help. Tukiko accepted and over time they managed to heal Yuki, even if she can still be weak sometimes. The two became professionnal masseuses, but they can of course take care of the customers in other ways upon request.

Ryori is one of Tukiko's long time friend. The two went to the same school, and Tukiko spent a lot of her free time at her place since Ryori always loved to cook things and eat a lot. She always was a bit chubby, but she never really minded, happy with her body as long as she could still do whatever she wanted. When Tukiko opened the Black Lotus, she offered Ryori a job as a cook for her restaurant, wich the girl quickly accepted. She is working really hard, but is also often seen in the onsen, enjoying free time. Rumors said that she and Tukiko often spend the night together.

Setai had always been poor elf girl. Being too shy to really decide of things on her own, she had been used by many peoples during her life until she finally ended up in a slave auction. Tukiko was the one that bought her, but once back at the Black Lotus, the foxgirl freed the girl before to offer her a job. Unable to say how much she was happy, the girl accepted gladly and is now working extremely hard. She is the maid of the Black Lotus, but sometimes she keeps habit of when she was a slave, following every order she's given, even the most humiliating. Tukiko tries to make her remember that she doesn't have to accept everything, but bad habits dies hard.